diff --git a/docs/topics/addons.rst b/docs/topics/addons.rst
index 815501e66..dba14e749 100644
--- a/docs/topics/addons.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/addons.rst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ recommend that such custom components should be written in the following way:
 
 1. The custom component (e.g. ``MyDownloadHandler``) shouldn't inherit from the
    default Scrapy one (e.g.
-   ``scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler``), but instead
+   ``scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler``), but instead
    be able to load the class of the fallback component from a special setting
    (e.g. ``MY_FALLBACK_DOWNLOAD_HANDLER``), create an instance of it and use
    it.
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ Use a fallback component:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    from scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http import HTTPDownloadHandler
     from scrapy.utils.misc import build_from_crawler
 
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 9dc26d703..5e56de05c 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ connections (for ``HTTP10DownloadHandler``).
     so you can safely ignore this setting,
     unless you really want to use HTTP/1.0 and override
     :setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS` for ``http(s)`` scheme accordingly,
-    i.e. to ``'scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTP10DownloadHandler'``.
+    i.e. to ``'scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http10.HTTP10DownloadHandler'``.
 
 .. setting:: DOWNLOADER_CLIENTCONTEXTFACTORY
 
@@ -909,8 +909,8 @@ Default:
     {
         "data": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.datauri.DataURIDownloadHandler",
         "file": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.file.FileDownloadHandler",
-        "http": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler",
-        "https": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler",
+        "http": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler",
+        "https": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler",
         "s3": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.s3.S3DownloadHandler",
         "ftp": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.ftp.FTPDownloadHandler",
     }
diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http.py
index 93b96c779..bc343e37f 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http.py
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
+import warnings
+
 from scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http10 import HTTP10DownloadHandler
 from scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11 import (
     HTTP11DownloadHandler as HTTPDownloadHandler,
 )
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+
+warnings.warn(
+    "The scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http module is deprecated,"
+    " please import scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler"
+    " instead of its deprecated alias scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler",
+    ScrapyDeprecationWarning,
+    stacklevel=2,
+)
 
 __all__ = [
     "HTTP10DownloadHandler",
diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/s3.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/s3.py
index 02beb2f8b..05a71b742 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/s3.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/s3.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
-from scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http import HTTPDownloadHandler
+from scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11 import HTTP11DownloadHandler
 from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.utils.boto import is_botocore_available
 from scrapy.utils.httpobj import urlparse_cached
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class S3DownloadHandler:
         aws_access_key_id: str | None = None,
         aws_secret_access_key: str | None = None,
         aws_session_token: str | None = None,
-        httpdownloadhandler: type[HTTPDownloadHandler] = HTTPDownloadHandler,
+        httpdownloadhandler: type[HTTP11DownloadHandler] = HTTP11DownloadHandler,
         **kw: Any,
     ):
         if not is_botocore_available():
diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index 624e71774..543e5c043 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS = {}
 DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS_BASE = {
     "data": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.datauri.DataURIDownloadHandler",
     "file": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.file.FileDownloadHandler",
-    "http": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler",
-    "https": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler",
+    "http": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler",
+    "https": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler",
     "s3": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.s3.S3DownloadHandler",
     "ftp": "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.ftp.FTPDownloadHandler",
 }
diff --git a/tests/test_addons.py b/tests/test_addons.py
index 0383fa627..457945ea5 100644
--- a/tests/test_addons.py
+++ b/tests/test_addons.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ class TestAddonManager:
         )
         assert (
             crawler.settings.get(FALLBACK_SETTING)
-            == "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler"
+            == "scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http11.HTTP11DownloadHandler"
         )
 
         settings_dict = {